Everything Ok Go have ever done.
Real genius at work here.
God knows how they make any money when they spend three years making a video?
Are there any other majorly creative videos I might have missed?
At the time, mid-80's, I still think that a-ha's 'Take On Me' broke new ground.
(And, no, not because of the Fortnite dance!)
The Wildhearts, Red Light Green Light
Daft punk around the world
and chemical brothers star guitar
both smiple ideas but brilliant
Around the world was done in one take iirc.
The Scientist by Coldplay. Pretty simple idea but learning to sing a song backwards is pretty impressive.
Metallica's One, the full version. Something unsettling about that song and video.
Beastie Boys Sabotage for me. More for the effort than anything else. They did interviews in character as the cops the played. Probably not the most creative, but definitely one of the best music videos in my opinion along with DJ Formats We Know Something You Don’t Know.
Have to agree about Ok go, the treadmill video is simple but genius.
I don't think these are the most creative ever but they're pretty good.
Prodigy-Smack my bitch up (Just for the twist at the end)
Korn-Freak on a leash
Of course the one that started it all - Bohemian Rhapsody.
Cry - Godley and Creme
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Sinead O’Connor - for the shear beautiful simplicity.
+1 for Sabotage, but director Spike Jonz has done a few creative pieces.
windowlicker by Aphex Twin (warning: adult language from the beginning) and anything else by Chris Cunningham:
And Evil by Interpol too - hauntingly amazing.
The Scientist by Coldplay. Pretty simple idea but learning to sing a song backwards is pretty impressive.
They ripped this off the Spike Jonze video for Pharcyde called Drop. They had to rap the whole song backwards. Awesome video...better song too!
I would like to suggest:
Prodigy / Smack My B*tch Up: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17d6h
and
DJ Snake / Turn Down For What:
I had Peter Grabriel's Sledgehammer going round my head when I opened the thread, but Daft Punk is a great shout. The way the different dancers represent the different "instruments" is very cool.
Tool lake some great, and bewildering, videos.
Others:
Metallica: One
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Duran Duran: Wild Boys
Neurosis: Locust Star (more weird than anything)
Gojira always do creative stuff
Ok Go are matters of the at of making amazing videos to disguise spectacularly mediocre tracks.
But, 21 posts without this?
Ok Go films are very very clever ,shame the music doesn't excite me in the same way.
We love this in our house...
Not the most creative but great.
Could be a contender.
How about REM - Imitation of Life
The entire video took only 20 seconds to shoot and what you're watching is a loop that goes forwards for 20 seconds, backwards for 20 seconds, forwards for 20 seconds, backwards for 20 seconds and so on.
or Arcade Fire
Designed for Google Chrome, it allows you to manipulate light, placement and object, allowing you to see (or not to see) various aspects of the video
or Royskopp - Remind Me for anyone who has ever had to work for the man proving that mankind has erected immense, resource-devouring systems of almost incomprehensible complexity just so you can sit in your cubicle.
This is excellent.
New Order - True Faith
Couple of favourites:
Sabotage is up there as being great
jamie xx - gosh
Massive Attack - Protection
Sabotage is not only a great video but also a bloody amazing song which helps.
Going to check out a lot of these other videos.
Like this one.
+1 choppersquad. Even though it was not my type of music I do remember lots of my mates waiting until midnight to see Thriller on channel 4.
